Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
Elie Wiesel
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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War is a profane thing.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‘I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.’
Brene Brown
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.
Billy Graham
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Mumbai is a spider web. You do a film and make 10 connections and do something else and make 10 more connections. You keep moving like that.
Swara Bhaskar
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Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.
Eminem
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
Nelson Mandela
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